A Decent Respect

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I know many of you are frustrated.

Okay, that undersells it. I know many of you are flat on the floor, kicking and screaming “I was promised arrests.”

I understand. In my mind I’m doing exactly the same thing. And in my emotions it makes perfect sense. We went through Obama’s years, seeing things get worse and worse as they piled corruption on corruption and made it more and more unlikely we’d ever have our country back as a constitutional republic. Then we had four years under Trump with the nonsense of Russia! Russia! Russia! and all the other fake emergencies, distractions and attacks, and nothing happened. And then 2020. My LORD 2020. The entire insanity, the gaslighting of an entire nation, the abuse of power, all of it so they could get away with the myriad open fraud events during the election.

Then came the four years of the Bidentia, with an obviously demented man who wasn’t any good even before he was demented (wrong on every issue) supposedly in charge, and a gaggle of the most radical Obama followers making decisions that amounted to the destruction of America. I mean, it’s not like they were hiding it. Their pro-open borders protesters kept saying “No border, no wall, no America at all.”

Sure they didn’t get everything they wanted, but I don’t need to tell you — you went through it with me — that it got pretty dark there for a while. Pretty d*mn dark. Between monetization sites trying to enforce what speech you could engage in, social media sites were silencing us, heck, Biden tried to install a “disinformation” czar not to allow any speech that they didn’t approve of.

Of course you want perpwalks. You saw the evil doers dancing in front of your eyes while violating every law, every civilized restraint. Of course you do.

Because it’s been six months, and the world isn’t completely made anew.

Read that sentence again. It’s been six months. Okay, six and a half.

The administration is working with a severely corrupted apparatus that has distorted our every institution, inserted itself in every investigation, and makes it impossible to do anything without fighting them every.step.of.the.way.

Six months. Okay, almost seven.

I’m sorry, it’s not a lot. It’s not a lot even if they weren’t trying to work with the equivalent of a computer infected with a virus.

I think part of the demand for the Epstein list is coming from this frustration. We want to see something being done and someone punished, and it’s been six whollllllle months.

Part of it too was the first electric month of the presidency, with Doge scaring everyone on the left, and finding more and more corruption. We got addicted to the high.

Guys, that is not how lasting change is made. It just isn’t. Even the stuff done against us wasn’t that fast. (And fortunately the stuff Biden tried to do, by and large didn’t work at all.)

Again, I must remind you that we are extremely online. And we are political addicts. We know everything that happened, and we’re outraged about all the crimes. Most people aren’t either of those. And when and if there are arrests, it will need to be made clear what caused them and also that the trials are impartial.

If we just replace their unjust persecution with our own, we just set up a cycle in which we alternate between triumph and revenge and the country will be destroyed. The worst thing we can do is appear to the country in general to be unjust and dogmatic.

Yes, I know we aren’t. You know we aren’t. But the point is that to move without proof, absolute proof that stands before the world, we will appear to be.

This is the same reason Trump hasn’t completely ignored the utterly ludicrous orders from every federal judge and his sixth cousin. It would be too easy for the apparatus of the left, still in place, to convince people that he’s a dictator and ignoring “the law.”

Instead, these judicial oversteps are getting cleaned, one by one, by the supreme court. Yes, it’s slow. But it’s effective.

In the same way, other things are being rolled back. Heck, the BBB has a poison pill for the entire make the young massively indebted to make sure beardo the weirdo has a university job deal. Things are moving. Slowly but surely, a lot of crap that has held the Republic down, some of it going back to FDR’s “New Deal” is being overturned.

All this while dealing with enemies inside the apparatus of state and an adversarial official cultural establishment, and the chaos abroad left by the Bidentia.

Is everything perfect? No. Does this look like paradise? It’s still the same Earth with the same flawed humans.

Do I agree with every step of everything the administration is doing? Guys, I don’t agree with everything I’m doing half the time.

But they are doing an awful lot. If not everything I’d like them to. And their priorities are the right ones. First of all, and most important of all, we need to clean our election system. The rest will be easier after.

So are we going to get perp walks? Maybe. In the fullness of time. Some. Perhaps.

If the evidence hasn’t been completely destroyed while in the previous administration’s custody. If it isn’t being destroyed now by the underlings that are in the grip of critical theory they learned in college. If —

We might get some perp walks. Maybe.

They probably won’t be the biggest of the evil doers. And if we do get some of them, it will be for what we can get actual proof of. So, you know, not, say, corrupting our election system, but mortgage fraud. There is a reason we got Al Capone for tax evasion, after all. The evidence of bigger crimes is always more carefully obscured.

Yes, this frustrates me at a level I have trouble articulating.

I understand it frustrates you too.

However, we must have — how was it that Tom Jefferson put it almost 250 years ago? Oh, yeah, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. — and make it clear that our grievances are just. And if we can manage to get it through without the war that Tom and his buddies ended up in.

Yeah, yeah, I know. There are days when you think you’d love a second American revolution. The problem is that revolutions don’t have a scripted end. And while I believe our cause is just and that liberty would win in the end, we’d end up destroying a generation, maybe two. And unlike two hundred and fifty years ago, neither we — nor humanity — have people to spare.

If we can get this through without it all tipping into a war? that would be ideal.

And to do that, it must be done slowly, subtly, with steady work and many, many, many of our own poison pills inserted into things like the BBB and making the pervasive election fraud, the absurd high jacking of our institutions impossible.

We must return power to the people, for the people, if possible, without burning it all down and while maintaining a thriving economy.

Not just for us. For the world. When America sneezes, the world catches pneumonia. Whatever happens here is worse the world over.

And the world is in rough shape right now. Our troubles have been amplified for them. For us to take a turn in the nuthouse and rip at each other might not mean the end of civilization. But it might very well mean several steps back with the ascent not guaranteed again.

Yes, I want a hundred perp walks. I want to see the smug bastages who lied to our faces proven rotten criminals.

But that’s the point. It must be proven. Without a doubt. And if it can’t be proven, even if we know in our hearts they’re guilty, we’d best let the forest of laws stand than get at the devil.

That’s what the play was about:

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”

― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

Take a deep breath. Things are moving. Things are being done. Frankly, if you look, things are being done at such a spanking pace that I suspect no one in the administration is sleeping more than every other night.

They’re just not the perp walks, the strutting, the big revenge moves.

And I am enough like the rest of you to understand why this upsets you. It upsets me too, but I also understand that this side of heaven there will always be disappointments. And sometimes what we want isn’t what it’s best for us.

I think I told here before — or if not here, in my discord group — the story of the dream I had, in 2020 or 2021 or maybe any time before 23 (I’m no longer sure of the date. Just that it was one of the dark times.)

I dreamed I was watching at a bird’s eye view, the stretch of highway between Colorado Springs and Denver. A stretch of road highly familiar to me.

It was a Colorado winter day, with cold grey light filtering from a light grey sky and just a few flakes of snow dancing in the air. There was no traffic on the highway, and it looked like it had been closed.

Finally down the highway there came very large trucks, looking like military equipment. In the first truck were gallows, piled high. Men got out, and with heavy equipment, erected gallows. These were crude things, just an inverted L and a support diagonal piece, all of it wood so raw I could almost smell the sap on the tree trunks. They were erecting those every 10 or 20 feet, by the side of the highway.

And then behind came a truck filled with people in business-casual clothes, like they were dragged out of some office, during a work day. One at the time, they were taken to the gallows and hanged, by men who looked like they were tired — soul dead — from what they were doing.

I don’t know who these people being hanged were. They looked like our neighbors. Like the parents of kids in our kids’ classes back when. Like people we saw when we went out to dinner or to the museum. Just men and women between thirty and sixty.

And — this is the important and horrible part — I have no idea who was hanging them.

Was our side winning? I don’t know. Was theirs? I don’t know.

And in a very real sense, it doesn’t matter. Because once things get to that place — study the history of our own revolution, comparative clean as it was — a lot of it personal revenge and personal envy and animus.

When things get to that point, we have all lost and it takes a miracle to bring back anything resembling the Republic we know and love.

I woke up from that dream chilled and scared, because it had the feel of one of those dreams I have that seem to foretell the future. (They’re not infallible, but a higher percentage than should be logical come true. I think they’re the result of reasoning going on at a subconscious level.) And it is a future I’d very much like us to avoid.

So, let things be done slowly. Advisedly. In the full eye of even the low information voters. Let us break through the logjam one at a time. Let us — for once — strive for hearts and minds.

If it means we don’t get our perp walks — maybe if we’re lucky one for two. For Christmas. We’ve been such good boys and girls — but we also don’t get unreasoning revenge? Probably a good trade.

Provided of course that the mechanisms and dark pathways that allowed the crimes to happen in the first place are corrected and sealed off. And that, I believe, is in the process of happening.

Guys, it’s been seven months. I know you expected more from seven months. On the other hand, it’s only been seven months. Take a deep breath. Possess your soul in patience. Start a diary of positive developments. Heck, share it with us because as with the outrages of the past, it’s easy to lose track of all the good that is happening.

Deep breath. As they said during Covid “we’re all in this together.” Only in this case it’s true. We’re all frustrated. We’re all angry.

And we, all of us, need to be strong, and let things unroll as fast as they can and no further.

Lest we wrest defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Again, whenever I post anything bat related, the fundraising is much much better.

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Now for the real thing, yeah, the fundraising has been limping a bit this year. Which is okay. It’s not an emergency. And it’s not like I’m going to shut down the blog if I don’t make enough. The blog money just makes it easier to explain to the family why I must make time to write a post or upload the memes or something, even on my “off” days.

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Meanwhile for the much abused paying subscribers of my substacks and patreon: the earcs for No Man’s Land are coming — three volumes, each two weeks apart — because I consider if you pay for those subscriptions, you are automatically subscribed to my e-arcs. (And if you don’t know what an e-arc is, I’ll explain when they’re released. The first SHOULD be tomorrow except tomorrow there’s a ton of doctors’ appointments. So it might be Friday. I spent today doing dramatis personae list with pronunciation. I’d completely forgotten the API and it was like pulling teeth.) The first book is DONE save for final copyediting and minor fixes. (And the first book is three volumes.) The second story in the world is started (actually the second and the third, but who’s counting.)

However before I dive into the second story I’m going to take a couple of months and finish the books I promised and that you’ve been waiting for.

Meanwhile keep your fingers crossed for me with the doctors’ appointments. Maybe I can break off my body’s attempts to kill me for a while.

Let’s hope.

219 thoughts on “A Decent Respect”

  1. At this point I’m persuaded the newsies are turning the heat on the files to distract from the bat-beep insanity that’s going on in the left right now.

    Like that confession letter from the nut hatch who shot a couple of dem politicians, that actually may well be legit. I’m pretty sure the root cause is still he is crazy, but I’m absolutely certain the talking heads don’t want to be talking about thy one.

    Or the Colorado DA defacto releasing that zombie who tried kidnapping some kids for immoral purposes. Apparently he really is crazy, and because they have zero institutions to institutionalize him, he’ll just go free, again, because this is not even the second time he’s tried something like this.

    Or CA deciding that because they can’t figure out how to issue permits, they’re just going to Kelo the Palisades, and build Section 8 housing instead.

    The Democrats are failing in visibly horrific multiple ways, and they are looking for anything to be a distraction from how completely and utterly horrible they really are.

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    1. I feel ambivalent about the Pacific Palisades at this point. The town is apparently very deep blue, so they voted for this treatment. They just didn’t think THEY would be the target of governmental theft.

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      1. It is still illustrative of the way they govern and exactly what sort of ‘good intentions’ pave the road to hell.

        Because that one really is an entire parade of bad decisions on the government’s part, not merely the standard kleptomania.

        They failed in their forest management.
        They failed in the city maintenance.
        They failed in their fire fighting.
        They failed in recovery

        Now they say the best they can do is ship a bunch of homeless folks in. Watch them fail there too.

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          1. At least it is kinda cute when Kei and Yuri wreck the planet (again) and shriek “Its not our fault!”

            Hmm. The “Lovely Angels” could not possibly have wrecked the place worse with gravitic mines and fusion guns, than the Leftroids did with progressivism. That speaks volumes.

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            1. I’ve seen the meme comparing Detroit after 50 years of Democrats and Nagisaki fifty years after the bomb.

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          3. Yeah. They emptied it to do repairs, but couldn’t get the environment approvals to actually do the repairs, so everyone say around and got paid to do nothing.

            Which is why I suspect they won’t even succeed at building their albums, either; that would require doing something, and they no longer know, or care how.

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        2. The folks whose houses burned are ‘homeless’, no?

          Technically; they likely have resources to keep living with roofs over their heads.

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        3. I have come to strongly doubt that any of this is failure. It looks much more like a business plan these days. They’re doing it all over N. America and Europe after all, You’d think at least one or two places would get things right by accident.

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      2. I look at what is about to happen to them as a mix of cosmic justice and tough love.

        Most won’t see their part in it but a handful will.

        And every time it happens a handful more will get it.

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      3. Payback is a B wishes are fine, but consider:

        LA is blocking insurance policy fully paid rebuilding via the permit slow roll, and then Eminent Domain-ing the property and paying contaminated-empty-lot fractional value for it, to build slum Section 8 multi unit low income housing and nuke all the neighborhood property values.

        This converts a possibly-eyes-opened LA residents into a pissed off but still LA mindset expats, possibly in your state, and sets a precedent for any local .gov to pull the same one simple trick the next time a convenient disaster strikes.

        If they can rebuild, these folks will be a thorn in the side of the local governments, having experienced firsthand their incompetence. If they all leave they become some other states politics problem.

        Any hope of getting CA back on some sort of sane track is more likely if these folks stay.

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        2. I believe that some people suspected (suspect?) that rebuilding permits for North Carolina victims of Hurricane Helene were being slow-walked *possibly* with the motivation of encouraging sales of land to people who would build high-value vacation properties.

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        3. Posts on X suggest that State Farm, apparently the largest home insurer left in CA, is short on cash to pay claims of 7.6 billion$, of which about 4 billion$ were paid by mid-June 2025.

          Probably temporary cash flow issues.

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    3. I just want to comment on the phrase “bat-beet insanity”. I prefer an alternate version: “guano insanity”. Takes most people a couple seconds to process, but I can always tell when I’m talking to someone with a large enough vocabulary that he/she knows what guano is and where it comes from, because he/she usually grins (or sometimes guffaws) right away.

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  2. The Democrats are ready for their perp walks. That’s what the “Trump is a dictator/No Kings” meme was all about. They are desperate for our side to overreach before the midterms.

    The best and brightest of the Biden-Autopen Administration minions {yeah, I know} were certainly beavering away in the Justice Department leaving their own “poison pills” behind on their way out and they were the ones most likely to know earlier there would be no Harris Administration.

    If revenge is a dish best served cold, let us chill ours until it is justice rather than mere revenge.

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    2. Frankly, except for a few, “tax evasion” type perp walks, I’m not expecting anything else. Any of the “tied to government illegal shenanigans” will have to wait until after mid-term elections. If we don’t keep the house and senate, President Trump is a lame duck president. He can try, but he’ll be stopped. Everything else must get done before then. Today or tomorrow, first of the clawback cut packages, results of DOGE, should be passing. Then they get another 3 bites at that apple. In the mean time other less public good for the country bills are being passed. Less public only because the usual suspects are REEEEEEEEEE-ing over something else (like ICE or Epstein).

      Even the lefty judges are doing Trump’s work for him. He issues and EO, lefty and picked judge fights it, SCOTUS overturns it. In addition lefty are establishing judicial ruling over facts of life, like the recent declaration that the preborn are human and have standing; because only humans can have standing. Property can’t.

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  3. the divisions popping up I’m MAGA are uncomfortably similar to the parties in the French Revolution. Just saying. Triggered by your dream episode.

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    1. I know. INSTINCTIVELY I’m a sans culotte. I just don’t let my instincts rule. Seriously. You guys have no idea how ironic it is that I’m the depressive stuck giving you guys pep talks and the blood thirsty loon calling for moderation.
      THE AUTHOR sure has a sense of humor.

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      2. Itching powder in a pressure suit humor, no less. To borrow a title from Spider Robinson “God is an iron”. (for the overtired, felony is done by a felon…)

        Sorry, it’s been one of those weeks. Did not expect my prime CPAP machine to hit end of life an hour after I went to bed. OTOH, the secondary machine is working, and the new primary plus tertiary and/or travel machines are at the mail/package drop.

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            1. However, The Enemy Within provides the counter-example: that inner savage needs to be present, controlled but used, otherwise a leader can’t lead.

              How did the Klingons characterize Starfleet? “Milksops that turn into berserkers.”

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      4. Everything was fine until he tried “nothing to see here, move along”. We can disagree with Trump on this issue and others. It doesn’t mean you have to disavow Trump and vote for communists. That’s just something people say to try and shut you up. The right is not a cult. We will debate robustly.

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        1. Rolls eyes.
          He didn’t. HE SAID IT WAS A DEM PLOT. The list is. Which it is. Because if you don’t think it’s been tampered with you have holes in your head.
          Distorting what he said and stompy footing that Epstein is the most important thing, because that’s ALL your side has to bring Trump down is stupid.
          “It’s not my side. I’m on the right.”
          Sure you are. In which case you’re jumping when the left cranks the organ. WHY?
          Look, yeah, debate is great. OVER EPSTEIN? Why? To force the release of a list that has poison pills?
          Verrrrahhh important, aye, I get it. Because all the left says so.

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          1. My side? Interesting. You and foxfire seem to have reached the same conclusion. At least you just leapt to it instead of the convoluted logic they used. Apparently I have to say every time now I love most of the Trump Presidency so far. Anyways. The memo that stated no further information would be released did in fact indicate case closed rather than a dem plot. President Trump did infer that with his public statements after and only after the backlash from the memo. The memo was stupid, inflammatory and unnecessary and I stand by that. We can also disagree and debate robustly, and that I stand by as well. All The Best.

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  4. Preserve the Constitution.

    Preserve the Republic.

    Preserve Liberty.

    All else is secondary.

    ….

    As long as Trump achieves those three major objectives, I can play along. If that means we all support the “Hold Your Nose” party so be it. If achieving the three goals means perp walks, or pardons, so be it.

    Victory!

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        1. You post cool bats.

          “Batgirl” was previously used.

          “Batwoman” was previously used.

          I intended amusing respect, so ….

          BatMaam

          it is.

          ……

          Zowie!

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          1. (On a lighter note). One night, I awaked to the sound of my dear Kitten rushing through the house accompanied by loud rustling of plastic. She had shoved her head through one handle of a green plastic garbage bag that had lodged around her ample tummy and was trying to get it off. Discovered her sitting on the sofa with the bag over her back and an expression of “Move along, nothing to see here”. The Caped Catsader!!!

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            1. Long ago, one of my cats stuck his head into a parmesan cheese can and ran blundering around the apartment. See, I always pulled the tops off to get the last bits of cheese out. Apparently the smell was irresistible. ‘Twas some time before I could stop laughing and pull the can off. Took pictures first, naturally.

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      2. Also “BAM!” “POW!”

        And the bust of Shakespeare with the button to open the secret door in its head, which you tip back to access.

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        1. I preferred Bruce Lee’s* (Green Hornet) garage, with the GH-mobile clamped upside down in storage. Muses on an upside down vehicle. It could be done safely, but in the mid-’60s? Yikes!

          (*) OK, he wasn’t the boss, but damned if I can recall anything else by Van Williams.

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  6. In the past seven months, iI’ve gone back to college, paid down a significant chunk of high-interest debt, and in two weeks I’ll be fully current on my mortgage again. I agree with Sarah, I’d love to see perp walks, but I’m too busy finally setting my own life in order to obsess over the action in politics this year or lack thereof – and I’ve realized that’s healthy for me. Now if I could just do something about the siding on the house….

    Point is, our hostess is right. A lot of the good that’s happening is on the personal level, just like a lot of the bad of the past 16 years was on the personal level, and it’s important to recognize, share, and celebrate those wins just as it was important to share the small injustices we’ve suffered individually.

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  7. But Sarah! It’s so tempting to “Just Burn Down All The Laws To Get The Devil”!!!!!

    Tempting but we shouldn’t yield to that temptation.

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    1. It is also tempting to conclude the laws have already been burnt down to get to us by people who see us as the Devil.

      It gets harder every day not to give into that temptation. I’m not saying we should, but I get why it gets harder with every district court ruling.

      Justice for some of those arsonists would probably do a lot to convince people that burning down the laws is a bad idea instead of the real path to victory.

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  8. I’ve had several episodes this year and last year being upset over things not correcting course more immediately and magically.

    Some times it is good to want things?

    Some number of days from six months out. Realistically, certain types of legal proceedings being entirely complete in such a short time frame might be suggestive of fraud. Lots of questions during an investigation, and hence some need for deliberation, and for seeking evidence that it had not previously been obvious to seek out. Some times it really is that obvious that some dude should be arrested, and stuffs, but sometimes it is not.

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            1. And as you’re running from angry fathers with pruning shears, a voice is heard from on high:

              “How do you like being chased?”

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      2. Umm, if you feel that is the prayer you need to pray, then do so. That said know the Author likes to teach that my making us exercise our patience, A LOT.

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      3. Reminds me of a parody of Empire Strikes Back. Yoda refuses to train Luke because he’s not patient. Luke demands Ben tell Yoda he’s patient. “-TELL HIM RIGHT NOW!!!”

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      1. And the reward for completing a hard job is a harder job with a shorter schedule.😓

        But unlike most of us, He knows our actual limits. Sort of like my Senior DI, but even more competent.😉

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  10. What an intelligent well thought out column. And to top it off its well written. It almost sings. The dream was very scary.

    I don’t know if we will get perp walks but taking the 5th in public will have close to the same effect. If Comey ever takes the 5th in public or Brennan they are ruined. Remember Frank Costello and the Kefauver hearings.

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  11. Guys, that is not how lasting change is made.

    That’s done by what Trump did manage during his first term– the relatively quiet stuff that the screamers always found some reason it was horribad, like arresting massive numbers of pedos, getting judges installed, cleaning up conflicting standards.

    Boring.

    Slow.

    Effective.

    Look at how terrified they are, and how much dust they’re throwing up.

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    1. Doing a bunch more Federal Judge appointments would be a really good thing. There’s apparently a lot of vacancies, and the Senate just needs to turn the crank, but I have not seen a bunch of names being sent across.

      Get on the ball, people!

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        1. I see in their hearing on a judicial nominee for the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals that the Senate Judiciary Committee chair preventing Sen. Booker from filibustering gave him the sads, and so all the Dems walked out, which just enabled the committee to pass the nominee out to the full Senate as unanimously approved by the committee, all the Dems unable to cast any votes against because they left.

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  12. Should probably be repeated:

    The status quo is where it is precisely because of the left damaging its planning and actions by subordinating it to their expectations and emotional needs.

    Obama regime, and Biden regime, were something that the left planned on being an eternal or lasting victory.

    Human beings can make the mistakes that other human beings have made.

    I’m fairly active stupid this morning, and I do not have the spoons at hand to do a decent job of recounting the actions of the Obamaistas and Bidenistas, the thinking that we can hypothesize is behind the actions, and the apparent modeling choice of valuing the flashy and symbolic actions.

    Such a recollection can give many ‘clear’ and ‘obvious’ insights into miscalculations. Miscalculations that we can make ourselves, in the future.

    Left has alienated a bunch of people on a tribal level, which means that we have opportunity to work with people who found previous years of left argument emotionally resonant. Beyond that, there is no credential of being a conservative intellectual that would prove that the holder is entirely immune to having analytical or emotional patterns that are basically small c ‘communist’.

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    1. Vir’s wish to Morden came about, after all, thanks to Molari.

      But the cost was a tad high.

      …..

      Don’t measure your success by the disasters that befall your foes, but by the heights you yourself achieve. Thus you can still take pleasure in a facetrun and repentance by the BigBad.

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  14. About your dream… at about the same time, just before the start of the pandemic, around Christmas of 2019, I dreamt I was standing in the middle of a city street, looking up at an immensely tall skyscraper, as it was toppling toward me like a felled tree. I was directly in the center of its width, there was no way I could run to either side, it was too far to run away in time, I felt this huge wave of inexorable doom.

    I woke up and searched for “dream of inexorable doom.” Sure enough, it is a thing, often blamed on menopausal hormones. It fit so well with what happened soon afterwards, though, that I’ve remembered it.

    We live in a liminal age, between one era and the next. No one knows what will happen next, so do not give in to fears.

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      1. Post menopausal myself, but I too had a horrifying dream. I won’t go through the whole thing but let’s just say, Madam Guillotine became very indiscriminate about who’s blood decorated her blade. By the end there was no one left to drop the blade, but it didn’t matter because she’d “learned” to do it herself.

        And she hates humans. Happy and free humans were the first to go.

        These things tend to get out of hand, and when they do, we are going to be lucky to live through it.

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    2. I don’t want it to go full ugly not so much because of a dream but a realization.

      We make helicopter jokes in some of these circles. I used to.

      I’ve quit.

      Because one day really thinking it through I realized if it comes to burning it all down:

      1. There will be people who have to be eliminated from the other side. Meaning, regardless of who wins there will be one way helicopter trips or their equivalent.
      2. You need people will to stain their soul with that kind of killing that are otherwise disposable so you can disown them later.
      3. You need people who understand #1 has to be done and are willing to accept #2.

      Then I realized who those people will be and I’d like to avoid that fate.

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      1. So definitely in the world of bad-and-more-bad bad hypothetical things, but in my view rows of people hanging along the interstate as an object lesson to commuters is arguably worse than most of the gulag’d or mental hospital’d or even helicopter’s hypotheticals.

        All very, very, very bad, but “hang’em all high and leave’em up for a bit” is quite a way down that bad road, with only stuff practiced in recent years in Daesh territory, crucifixion and caged immolation being but two examples, among things worse to my mind.

        I’m sticking with my selection of dark humor, rather than going full Daesh on it, just to keep some distance from the deeper end of that pool.

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        1. To each his own. I don’t object to helicopter jokes.

          It was just realizing if it goes bad and that has to be done as part of making peace there were a non-zero change I’d be given the tap on the shoulder for helicopter or gallows or whatever stole some of the humor.

          I used to be a burn it down guy. Not anymore.

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          1. Yep, to each his own works best. Staying completely out of that metaphorical pool is a fair choice. I was never a burn-it-all-down guy, so maybe my optimism that the system was not fully gone buffers me enough from the dark if I can stay in the shallow end of the pool.

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          2. I hold with the philosophy from author Donald Hamilton, which (paraphrased) is that we don’t want to start killing people just because they’re bastards – because it’s so hard to know when to stop.

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            1. I have a list in my head and if conditions lead to me starting I plan to finish.

              I just don’t want the conditions to come about.

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  15. I am discouraged by the number of people who have the mental capacity to post on the internet who actually think that the epstein files in Jan 2025 are not an altered, redacted, falsified series of traps that even a public defender could discredit.

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      1. Me too. Once it was pointed out.

        Now? Well C***.

        If people mentioned on those lists are victims, it’ll show.

        If people mentioned on those lists are predators, there is something else to get them with. Just some digging. But we will never know about the relationship to Epstein.

        The others, like a certain prince? Will they ever see bars? No. But anyone think being sidelined by the monarchy, who was a parent, does not mean punishment? Not like that was countermanded by the subsequent ruler and won’t be by the subsequent one. Note, there was no trial. Forever tarnished.

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  16. Arrests?

    I want the recission bill to pass the House. The GOP actually got it through the Senate and as I type it expires today and hasn’t passed the House.

    I’d much rather throw a fit over an actual ending of spending that got through the Senate not passing a GOP majority House than the arrests thing.

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    1. It has been referred to the House floor. From what I’ve read they have until Friday, 7/18/2025, to get it to President Trump for signing. Still have through tonight and into tomorrow to pass it.

      I agree. Make the DOGE cuts and clawbacks law, not mere suggestions.

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      1. That they had 45 days to get it through the Senate with only a simple majority and we’re within 36 hours (I was wrong…today is the 17th…I was thinking today was the 18th) of that expiring is not confidence building about the GOP.

        I get it has only be 6 months Saturday for the President and two weeks ago for the Congress, but dropping the ball on this one will only reinforce the view that the GOP just pretends to want the things it runs on.

        As it is of the original suggestions the Senate couldn’t pass it with removing some $400 million cut. I get the slim majority issue but if your majority is so fragile you can’t pass any of your agenda what is the point of a majority.

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        1. We were lucky to find a Trump and elect him thrice. However, we still have the sum total of the Republican party. Trump didn’t cancel out the RINOs and the Swampies. He may yet cancel them, but that is still the work of many hands and years.

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            2. The Donks are about to try, again, to stick “Epstein” up Trump’s seat.

              Try not to play along.

              It’s desperation, so savor it. But avoid adding to the false cacophony of outrage.

              At this point, I hardly care at all what Trump does, or of what accused, as long as the Donks and RINOs are screaming their frustration and futility in their fevered imagined gotchas.

              If they can’t discuss it rationally they sure can’t act rationally. That plays to our strenghts.

              Symphony of success!

              Ponder that the outrage about to drop wasn’t found by the prior admin. Thus it may be an intentional product of Team Trump, and isn’t -that- idea amusing….

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              2. If it were me, and I had all the money in the world like he does, while I was out of power I would have hired two teams including lots of smart experienced lawyers – a blue team building the “what to do” plan, and a red team who would look at the blue team plan, game out the responses, and build a yuge book of preplanned counter actions. ”If we do this thing in the blue plan they will file lawsuits – what would those most likely look like, and what are our responses?”

                Including prebuilt leak stuff in the yuge book to plant at the appropriate time would be an obvious thing.

                And it’s not like “they shredded everything in the Epstein files” was an inconceivable event, so having something ready to roll in that case would make perfect sense.

                When I look at what has been accomplished in these past sixish months, it always seems like the DJT team is three steps ahead and playing 3d chess vs. their checkers. Having all that prep work, the result of four years of effort, would explain much of that.

                I do think internationally DJT himself is genuinely torqued that Putin is being nice on the phone but giving him the finger in real life, that his reasonable efforts to mediate things, his yanking Zhelenskyy’s chain, gained him nothing with Vlad. I think that all has been a surprise, but that ‘s the “rational opponent” fallacy in action.

                But I get the impression that the domestic stuff has him doing the Palpatine line, “Everything is proceeding as I have forseen.”

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              3. That ‘s nice.

                I mostly don’t care and the the degree I do it isn’t about Trump but people’s “no one pays but little people ever” to the point of a mob doing something stupid.

                What I do care about? THE house recessing with the recissions bill still not voted in with a deadline of tomorrow to pass before it would have to go back to the Senate and be subject to filibuster this time.

                That is a bigger sign of “we didn’t really mean it” than 1000 Epstein lists.

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                1. Credit where credit is due. The House passed it with 14h 57m to spare and with two more votes than last time.

                  Now to defeat the “once the Dems win it’s de facto amnesty” bill several Republicans are floating.

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    2. Interesting reading recently on Col. Kratman’s substack feed on his long-running “Care and Feeding…” opinion series, pointing out how (yes, Rome is not the U.S., etc., etc.) the Roman Republic to Principate transition was carefully managed to preserve as many of the Republic’s public-facing appearances as possible, while changing the “who is actually in charge” stuff behind the scenes. They din’t go there, but this mostly made me think about the drip drip revelations about the Dotards Autopen Administration and who was actually sending emails approving things in Brandon’s name. I think DJT being elected saved us from the Kneepad Autopen’s Administration, but there’s no way with all the leaking and deep statery and judicial tantrums still going on that DJT could get away with anything so unconstitutional, so there’s that.

      And Congress needs to pass the proposed bill outlawing the Autopen for anything substantial.

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        1. Yeah. I took note of that, too.

          My theory is they officially hate “Russia,” because they see it as Betraying the Revolution.

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          1. Pretty much.

            I think that is also why they inflated Putin’s evilness. As ex-KGB they see him as a traitor to the Soviet state by not reinstituting it when he gained power.

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        2. They called themselves “the politburo.” (Screams with clenched teeth.)

          But they meant ironically, right?

          Right?

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          2. I tihnk I recall speculating that the factional splits at the start of the Biden regime amounted to a Gu jar of vicious morons.

            We don’t seem to have seen the sort of lasting tactical gains for their side that one would expect if they were not incompetent try hards.

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          3. Insert “Anakin and Amidala” meme… maybe I’ll go make one but I have no idea how to connect it here.

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      2. I’d propose the Political Triangle. Pick one, if you’re lucky, you might get it.

        OTOH, I’m intimately familiar with the ET, and its wisdom.

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  18. The problem with “efficient government” is that it has never existed when humans were in charge. Not even in the Garden.

    Nobody ever got the trains running on time.

    And Romans 3:23 describes us all perfectly. We all lack something. As Pascal said, there’s a God-shaped vacuum in each of us.

    Be the person you want everyone else to be and be the one lighting the candle to drive off the darkness. Because the world is evil, scary, and continually lies its ass off trying to make us retreat. But we are more scary to “the other team” if we choose Life and Truth. And we are not here to “hold the fort” or “retreat”. We’re here to save the world.

    We are the cavalry.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcD9uhRC3Ew

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    2. And the U.S. Constitution was deliberately to trade efficiency for the protection of individual rights. An efficient Government is a fearsome thing.

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  19. Yeah, at the time I was a little worried that Trump might be overpromising a bit. But considering he has the government and media weaponized against him, he’s doing pretty good.

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  20. We need to preserve the Republic not just for ourselves but for our posterity, and through them, for humanity. Not by Wilsonian machinations, but by inspiration, and by standing ready. If you want peace …

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  21. Six whole months. Wow. Anyone who thinks perp walks materialize in six months when DOJ probably hasn’t even managed to pull all the information together and vet it (which is the most important part) is nuts.

    And if I hear much more about Epstein Epstein Epstein, I swear I’m going to pop my safeties.

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    1. My only problem with: “Six months. Okay, almost seven.” Is no one is putting emphasis on them. You know making them BOLD and Italic! No need to shout (uppercase), exactly, yet anyway.

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  22. I never really cared about the release of the Epstein stuff. Not because I don’t care about the victims, and the abuse of power (and the encouraging of abuse of power in a sexual situation, possibly). I want the country to get put back on a track that doesn’t lead to revolution, civil war, an economic crash that makes the Panic of 1873 look like a tiny global hiccup, or all of the above, all at once.

    The evidence on any list s so tainted by now that even TV-drama lawyers could argue it out of court. I want to see more steady progress, legislation passed, immigration reform that really does improve things. I’d also like to see sanity return to California’s government, at all levels, but the San Andreas Fault will change from being a strike-slip to a block fault* before that happens, I suspect. And, to be honest? Someone always insists on being the horrible warning.

    *It tears the land apart instead of dropping it into the sea. I suspect the sea-life petitioned the Most High to spare them that fate. ;)

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  23. Mortgage fraud? Is this a reference to Sen. Schiff(CA-D)?

    For those who haven’t heard, word is that Schiff apparently has houses in two different states, and has both listed as his primary residence on their respective mortgage documents.

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    1. If that is established, Schiff would be well and truly hoist on a petard.

      Either Maryland really is his primary residence, so he is ineligible to be elected in California or he still lives in CA and fraudulently claimed otherwise for mortgage advantages.

      C’est à rire!

      I wonder who will eventually get the tumbril concession in DC. Open-top Waymos?

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      1. Oh, and he seems also to have claimed CA as primary residence, so even if he has not lost his eligibility to be CA Senator, he has the mortgage fraud problem in CA.

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      2. ”…ineligible to be elected in California…”

        Hah! Laws in the Singed But Formerly Golden Bear Flag People’s Republic only apply to who the elites in charge Say they apply to, and certainly not other elites. The as-greased-back-as-Gavin California Attorney General makes sure of that!!

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      3. Ah, but you forget, Adam Schiff got an Autopen pardon. I forget offhand how broad and preemptive it was, but I suspect it will be very hard to find some corner of Schiff’s apparent fraud that one, hasn’t been blanket-pardoned, and two, hasn’t had the statute of limitations lapse.

        Sigh. They win again, don’t they?

        Republica restituendae,

        with a bit of

        Fiat justitia ruat caelum

        thrown in for taste.

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        1. Since part of his fraud concerns his election eligibility, and also that the mortgage fraud is ongoing, maybe not. The pardons don’t cover future crimes.

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        2. Presidential pardons only cover federal crimes. If Maryland (where his other house is located) has mortgage fraud laws, then a presidential pardon wouldn’t cover it.

          On the other hand, if the pardon does cover it, then the Senate can hold a hearing, and he can’t invoke the Fifth…

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        4. President Trump signed an EO stating the autopen signed pardons were void because Biden did not specifically vet and authorize each and every one of the pardons.

          Prosecute Adam Schiff’s ass, and others, let the SCOTUS sort it out.

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      1. And Leticia James in NY. Apparently several types of mortgage fraud, between New York and Virginia.

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  24. I don’t know about anyone else, but I think bats are really cool. Obviously I’m not a cowardly and superstitious lot. . . .

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    1. I like bats. Sib-in-law is not so fond, but also had to get the rabies shots thanks to an ailing bat that a cow-irker said, “Here, you do wildlife, you deal with it.” So I don’t blame s-i-l.

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  25. Pingback: dark night time | Dio's Workshop

  27. Aside, apropos only that the dark regularly needs light shined on it, even if only via definitions:

    “I should point out clinically, just for those who are watching and listening, that anxiety is a response to the the threat of destruction, psychological or physical. Depression is more of a pain response, and it’s got two aspects: It’s heightening of negative emotion, withdrawal in particular, that causes cessation of activity, but also decrease in positive emotion, which is more associated with demoralization and and lack of motivational impetus to move forward. And you describe those as the internalizing disorders.”
    Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
    from a video discussion with Jonathan Haidt, quoted at The Battleswarm Blog at https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=65938

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  29. “Guys, I don’t agree with everything I’m doing half the time.”

    This right here is why this blog is full of kindred spirits for me.

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  30. I hope the Doctor appointments go well.

    I consider the substack subscription to be primarily my financial contribution to this blog, with the serialized content being a bonus when it appears. I also look forward to new releases, although recent releases have often been re-releases of things I already have. I will read the e-arcs and also purchase new novels as they are published.

    Come to think of it, that is similar to my attitude toward the sometimes unreliable products of the political process. I try to appreciate when something good happens and not get too upset when it is less than I had hoped for.

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    1. You will indeed get new releases. E-arc tomorrow. So, my thyroid is off again. Anyone surprised?
      Well, I was. So prescription doubled.
      Next appointment (for something else) the 23rd. We move forward.

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      1. Sarah, monitor your heart rate carefully for a few weeks on the new prescription. A couple years ago I moved to a higher dosage of desiccated thyroid and felt quite energized for 3-4 weeks, then ended up in the emergency room/hospital room for 24 hours with atrial fibrillation that only reverted once the excess free T3 had been flushed from my system. Oops. Lesson learned the hard way. I’ve decided to be quite happy with my current not-quite-so-high prescription, which I also split into two doses 8-9 hours apart to avoid problems. ;-)

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  32. The Latin that St. Augustine used for his prayer, “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet,” was: “Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo.”

    So “Da mihi patientiam, sed noli modo,” LMAO!

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  34. The WSJ claims to have obtained a 50th birthday book made for Epstein in 2003. They claim Trump contributed a letter..

    The letter is typewritten, within the outline of a naked woman drawn in heavy marker, and has a dialog in third person between Epstein and Trump.

    The tone is utterly unlike Trump. It reads like someone’s attempt to be artsy-fartsy “literary.” As AG Hamilton (no fan) put it, he’d believe Trump slept with underage girls sooner than he’d believe Trump used the word, “enigma,” in a sentence.

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        1. Yes. Already something like $30 million plus, all from democrat supports paying penalty. At this rate the democrat engine is going to pay for the entire library.

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    2. I think Trump also basically said “i don’t sound like that, ever ” and had filed a suit against WSJ for libel.

      the man is known for writing in the same manner he speaks AND if he does a personal note, it’s handwritten. But yeah, he totally just this one time did a typewritten, non-direct note, suuuuuure.

      CBS just had to cough up a massive amount for falsely calling him a rapist. The WSJ apparently is even dumber than that…

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      1. There’s “gotchas” running around Twitter bravely proving that… Trump knows the word “enigma.”

        And applying it to every post mentioning the word enigma, even when it’s laughing at the idea of Trump using enigma (in a completely different manner) to write a dialog about “is there more to life than having everything?”

        …yeah, no.

        That’s the sense of humor that put Bill Clinton in a blue dress for a painting, it’s not something we’ve seen from Trump, as of about the year before he was in The Apprentice.

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  35. How about this?

    I want this whole thing to be over. Done with.

    I saw protesters about Trump and ICE and how they were going to Impeach Trump and everything else going to my gig this morning, about 7 AM.

    I swear to God I saw the same protesters coming home at 6 PM today.

    I recognize with logic and thought that it’s only been…call it seven months. Good number that. Seven is darker, after all.

    Logic and reason say that the progress we’ve made in the last seven months is spectacular for any government agency or organization. It’s driving our usual suspects insane. They’re flailing around like mad, trying to find something that gives them traction.

    My emotions want the perp walk. It wants the “Layla” scene from Goodfellas, where all these people get what they have deserved for last twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years.

    I try not to lead with my emotions. But I am so very tempted…

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    • No Fort Knox audit
    • “Epstein? Never heard of him”
    • “I don’t want support if you’re still going on about Epstein”
    • They’re not even being really effective w/ deportations

    IMy youngest daughter talked me into participating in “democracy” this time, and it was a huge mistake. I would have felt a lot better knowing that I didn’t have anything to do with the outcome. There would be no sense of being taken for a fool. Vote harder, y’all – the swamp needs your consent.

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    2. They’re not even being really effective w/ deportations

      ….what?

      The rest of that is somewhat defensible as dramatic excess and not paying attention beyond headlines, but that’s– what?

      But this is “shut up and ignore your lying eyes, I am DECLARING it’s not effective.”

      Multiple people here are from areas where illegals were only slightly touched by the Grand Salida, and nothing else– and there’s observable drops. To the point of grocery store stocking habits having changed.

      There’s weekly arrests and removal of nasty criminals, pedophiles, violent crime rings.

      The sob stories the progs come up with are “drunk driver with drug convictions is deported.”

      What the heck are you on?

      There would be no sense of being taken for a fool. Vote harder, y’all – the swamp needs your consent.

      Your daughter is not responsible for you already being a fool.

      You pretend that an audit that has been getting organized, which those opposed were opposed because it would take so long to set up, isn’t done and publicized.

      A flat out lie, since Trump is the one high roller that opposed Epstein when he did public hinky stuff including taking his target to the cops to file a report, and booting the SOB.

      And a line that indicates why he’d have that attitude, with this judgement, I wouldn’t want you on my side, either.

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        1. “Paid Fool” works. As does Lenin’s “Useful Idiot”.

          “Oh, wont you patriots and conservatives -please- stop voting! Please! It isn’t helping at all! Stop!”

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        2. On one hand, they’re not exactly getting value for money — on the other hand, it’s probably peanuts and it’s just as well its being frittered away.

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    3. You are insane. No, you are seriously insane.
      Spit out that black pill. You know exactly where it’s been.
      As for those quotes, nonsense. If you’re implying Trump was involved you’re a dunce. Worse than a dunce. A dunce and a puppet. If they had that on him, it would have come out in 19.
      Are you a paid troll, or merely a stooge? WHY are you obsessing over Epstein and not over the messed up elections? Do you think the ghost of Epstein took the 300k trafficked kids? Was he the one who opened the now fortunately closed border?
      The difference in administrations is stark. If you refuse to see that, you’re selling something.
      I need you to write, without the quotes “Winnie the Xi is a tyrant and the Tienanmen square massacre destroyed China.”
      You think Epstein is the only of his kind? WHY

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      1. Is his IP is domestic? I can’t imagine pro trolls not using a VPN, but the logs on day job’s web site indicate a lot of cyberwarrior wannabes don’t bother, or do something weird like pick Singapore. I assume the same happens from the Rooskie/Xi-ski bots, breathing or totherwise.

        Day job we just block entire continents, making admin a lot easier.

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          1. FM is quite correct. You can vastly reduce your problem hits by blocking IPs of various craphole regimes.

            Another site I lurk blocks all VPNs. And most of their trolls just …. vanish.

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              1. Day job we use a WP plugin called “WordFence”. It does more than just geo based blocking, and there’s a free level and a subscription paid upgrade that adds more features. On the WP plugins site it has 4.7 stars out of 5 on 4k+ reviews.

                https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

                Just looking around on that plugins directory I see others: There’s a highly rated one called “IP Location Block” – no experience with that one but it’s 4.6 out of 5 stars, but only tens of total reviews.

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                1. requires upgrade to business. It’s not that I mind that. It’s that the last time I did so, it extensively broke the site, so I had to contact them and demand they take it back.
                  I’ll postpone till I have time to mess with.

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              2. One method is putting web sites behind a web access firewall. Imperva Incapsula is one. the DNS record points to the WAF. It then routes traffic, or not, to your web host IP. You set the web host to block every IP except incapsula and your management PC(s). Thus only authorized traffic can arrive. The WAF blocks out malicious activity, and you can designate whole region IPs as safelist or blocklist.

                Many hosting platforms have security features that can do this sort of thing.

                Lots of info online about blocking IPs/etc from web sites.

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        2. New Straight-To-Mod Keyword Alert (If you include this word your comment goes into moderation) (remove dots):

          d.e.f.e.n.e.s.t.r.a.t.i.o.n

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    5. Spaceba, Comrade! Glory to the Great Putin’s wallet! Winnie the Pooh is a Xinomorph! Tienanmen Square was full of Party Elite Children who were all massacred like Uighurs! The Uighur Death Camps in the background of the live action Disney movie were real and full!

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      1. Let’s see, what else… Something something Falun Gong! Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries! Alt spelling Uyghur Freedom! Xi is a poor relation and not to be trusted! Nomadland – Yóumù Zhī Dì (游牧之地)! Baozi – Bāozi (包子)! Sprinkle Pepper – Sā Shàng Hújiāo Fěn (撒上胡椒粉)! Great Firewall Of China – Zhōngguó Fánghuǒqiáng (中国防火墙)! Go, Hong Kong! – Xiānggǎng Jiāyóu (香港加油)!! The Dalai Lama (达赖喇嘛), Peng Shuai (彭帅), and Zhao Wei (赵伟) walk into a bar.

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    7. found the plant!!

      srsly, dude, the attempts by your lot to black pill us are just getting silly and lame.

      “I’d rather submit to Marxist tyranny than be thought a fool, and it all failed bc it isn’t perfect, and please ignore all that panicked screaming from v the left, it doesn’t really mean anything, wah wah wah. ”

      Thats comedy gold, right there.

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    3. At first glance I thought he was dumping Carp in her drawers. :-D

      Closer look and they’re…peppers? Pickles? And Accordion Guy pointing at his watch like there’s a time limit.

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  38. I agree that we need answers and justice (the perp walk) and I hope that happens not just for Epstein but for all the covid injustices we suffered through and so much more. But right now I am just plain sick of all the drama and overblown headlines. As you say, we all need to be strong and let things unfold as they will.

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  39. Also something to consider: it would do far, FAR more damage for them to start arresting people willy-nilly (even if we, they, and G-d all know they’re guilty) and then *fail* to prove it and get a conviction in a court of law than it would be for them to take the time to gather hard, irrefutable evidence to nail the suckers. THAT would greenlight the dems to start doing it with no evidence at all the next time they are in power–sure, they will still try to do it anyway (and have), but let’s make sure WE do it right, and make it that much harder for them to do it the way they want to.

    Does that mean that some of the said suckers will get away? Sadly, yes. It’s not like it took a genius to cover their tracks in the labyrinthine nonsense of fedgov bureaucracy and the stupid way money is handled. It’s the same frustration many homicide detectives end up facing: They KNOW whodunnit. The whodunnit knows they know. But there isn’t enough hard evidence, and so long as whodunnit keeps their mouth shut, there’s nothing the forces of law and order can do, because this is a country that strives for “innocent until *proven* guilty” and an ethical prosecutor won’t even bring it to court unless they are fairly sure they can prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt–because if you bring it to trial and then fail…well. No double jeopardy. (This is also why I think prosecutors who bring a dirty case and get a conviction that is later overturned–because shenanigans–ought to go to prison. For the same amount of time, at least, that they were going to condemn an innocent person to prison.)

    More than arrests, I want to see new rules. That if you are serving in a public office (don’t care what party), and your net worth goes up ‘x’ amount in that time or during a set time immediately thereafter, you automatically become the subject of a deep audit. And the sources of your money are found AND MADE PUBLIC INFORMATION. I think that would scare a lot of would-be skeeves into staying mostly on the straight and narrow. Not all of them, but it’s a start.

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    1. this is a country that strives for “innocent until *proven* guilty” and an ethical prosecutor won’t even bring it to court unless they are fairly sure they can prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt–because if you bring it to trial and then fail…well. 

      Which is why 95%+ of all “prosecutions” end in plea deals from vastly overcharged indictments. Do you roll the dice on a trial…. or plead out? Especially if you’re in a jurisdiction that hates you for political reasons. Ask the J6 defendants how that worked out.

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  40. I did say “strives for.” Our justice system has more than it’s share of corruption, but it’s still better than anywhere else (and harsh penalties for prosecutorial shenanigans would help, as I also suggested)

    but at least the current administration appears to be trying to do it right, not adopt the lefty tactics of “throw everything against the wall and hope something sticks” or “arrest them and hope we can make something work later” I’ll take “doing it right, even if it’s slow and folks might not actually end up in jail bc we can’t prove their guilt” any day of the week over that.

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